Apply for funded childcare for your 2-year-old

Your 2-year-old will be eligible for funded childcare if you get one or more of these benefits:

• Income Support
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Universal Credit, and your household income is £15,400 a year or less after tax, not including benefit payments
• child tax credits, and your household income is £16,190 a year or less before tax
• the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
• the Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)

or your child:

• is looked after by a local council
• has an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
• gets Disability Living Allowance
• have left care under an adoption order, special guardianship order or a child arrangements order

You may have to pay for extra costs like meals, nappies or trips.

You don't need to reapply each term once you've been found eligible, even if your situation changes.